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...extended home," the document urges the U.S. to take logical, sequential steps toward colonizing space over the next 50 years. It assumes that NASA's proposed orbiting space station will be in place by 1994. Simultaneously, research would proceed on both an aerospace plane (President Reagan's so-called Orient Express), capable of taking off from runways and soaring into orbit, and a new generation of reusable rocket-powered craft that would reach orbit with a single-stage engine. These two new vehicles would compete to see which would become the shuttle's successor, carrying passengers and cargo between earth...
...give incentive bows to orient students to any particular path," he says. "We don't have any school program whose intent is to encourage students to practice in any one area...
Cost of the most expensive package at Crimson Travel--a first-class, three-week tour through the Orient and Australia for one person...
...orient people as to what the legal process is in this country, and we assist them in making a decision about what they want," says Emilie J. Yozell, the attorney who operates the legal services at Centro Presente. "The paralegals do all of the intake, screening, case preparation, and they advise people of their legal rights. The documentation [department] also helps prepare the cases. They do research to find evidence of human rights violations...
...Services Secretary, Dr. Otis Bowen, to study the prospects for a catastrophic health insurance program, and Treasury Secretary James Baker was told to investigate the possibilities of an international monetary conference. Reagan announced that he was pushing ahead with plans for a suborbital airplane, which he dubbed a "new Orient Express," that could someday fly at 25 times the speed of sound. Though the craft is designed more for Star Wars defense purposes than for helping businessmen make it to Tokyo in time for lunch, it promoted an image of a President riding enthusiastically into the future...